Monday, November 24, 2008

near-epic fail!

if you like the band, take easy knitting... sounds like a simple rule, no? sigh...

so here i am at Bound for Glory, listening to Small Potatoes, working on my glitten (half glove half mitten, to go with the Tabi i have yet to blog about.), when the rule comes to bite me in the kiester!

i had finished making the hand down to where i needed a thumb, and i'd made the thumb. so i went to knit the thumb in with the rest of the hand... easy, right? i got all the way around the hand and back to the thumb before i realized what i had done. i held it so my Mom could see, and she starts laughing. well, stifling the giggles, since this is the last song of the last set. so i start stifling the giggles. Helena looks over from her 2 inches of sweater, and i try showing it to her.

she doesn't get the joke. so i put it on so she can see the error. by the time that the last song was over, and the show outtro, and the two-song encore, we've mostly stopped the giggling, and i've figured out how to show the obviousness of the stupid thing i'd done...

near-epic fail 1

"it was a really good last set..." sez me. this was funny, but once i'd shown it to all the knitters, including one of the performers, it was time for a few pics...

near-epic fail 2

and home... i should have this finished by tonight or tomorrow night... pics of the whole "pair" then...

dani 8-)

2 comments:

Britt said...

I'm a little disturbed that you need your trigger finger free. ;)

I'm going to assume that your intention is just to make pointing at things easier.

dani, the geek said...

actually...

i did it because i'd just finished my second pair of tabi socks, and didn't want to stop the paradigm... (pics of those are coming)

i've had a bicycle rider, a horse-woman, and a hunter all assure me that these would be perfect for them.

so far, i find it useful in fishing out my bus pass/id card for the coat of doom.

8-)